The Entropy-Driven Economy: Americans Waste Trillions Fighting Chaos

24 Dec, 2025

In the United States, end-to-end logistics is burdened by several inefficiencies, including complex operations, a high package-loss rate, and rising costs. Together, these three issues pose a big obstacle to economic growth in the American supply chain.

To understand the impact of these inefficiencies, GHE Solution gathered firsthand insights from frontline logistics workers. Employee experiences reveal how systemic breakdowns occur inside day-to-day operations. The following examples illustrate how those systemic breakdowns affect customers and reveal that carrier commitments often differ from what they deliver.

Case Studies: The Cost of System Failure

The 45-Day Detour (A Major Carrier – MP1): I paid for premium 3–4 day delivery for a time-sensitive commercial contract. It arrived 45 days later. This delay paralyzed a critical business process.

The Physical Destruction (A Major Carrier – MP2): In under four years, packages sent via a major private carrier have arrived severely damaged twice. In one case, a box had a large hole, resulting in the loss of 25% of the small, critical items inside.

The Compensation Dead-End (Major Carriers): On multiple occasions, packages were marked “Signed For” in the tracking system, yet they were never received. When we challenged this fictional data point and requested the foundational signature evidence, the carriers repeatedly failed to produce the documentation. Our recourse? Absorb the loss or face the costs of litigation.

These examples aren’t caused by bad luck. They’re evidence of systemic issues affecting the American supply chain.

The root cause is the high-entropy model built on manual processes and opaque data. This model has led American logistics companies down a path of unacceptable friction with customers and high delivery failure rates. Every day, the search for and redelivery of packages is a direct consequence for American businesses.

This is the very breakdown that GHE Solution exists to fix. We must transition from these manual, error-prone “entropy control” methods to digitally managed, “entropy-embracing” systems.